What is Wheelchair Accessible Construction?
Buildings comply with wheelchair accessible construction to make their business or residential facilities open to disabled people. Simple accommodations, such as wide hallways, wheelchair lifts, entrance ramps, automatic doors, or designated parking spaces, can bring their property up to the code of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Wheelchair accessible construction means a person using a wheelchair can move freely between floors, in bathrooms, at workstations, and through walkways. Some new buildings are required by legislation to design and build structures that make it easy for those in wheelchairs to use the same facilities available to a non-disabled visitor. These newly constructed buildings integrate wheelchair accessible construction into every part of the building, from parking and entering to finding their destination and getting there. Such plans might have ramps in place of stairs, an elevator in place of an escalator, wheelchair accessible restrooms, drinking fountains
